Post Your First Egg of 2016!!!

[KsKingBee]

Candle wax.

 

[Garden Peas]

Candle wax.

Candle wax??? Trying to figure out if that's an epithet or a suggestion

 

[DylansMom]

Candle wax will seal up a crack, but there is always the risk of bacteria and an exploding egg later. There was a tiny bit of albumen leaking out of my perch bomb, so I wasn't chancing it.

 

[barkerg]

​Candle wax will seal up a crack, but there is always the risk of bacteria and an exploding egg later. There was a tiny bit of albumen leaking out of my perch bomb, so I wasn't chancing it.

A friend of mine asked me to turn his emu eggs one year... Uh huh, you guessed it, one exploded after I tapped it wrong and I had to take the whole incubator apart to clean it, not to mention, the fact that I had my face all up inside the GQF and I'll leave that there. I take no chances and closely monitor any cracked eggs I have tried to repair, but I usually toss 'em because of that darned emu egg.

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Gerald Barker

 

[DylansMom]

A friend of mine asked me to turn his emu eggs one year... Uh huh, you guessed it, one exploded after I tapped it wrong and I had to take the whole incubator apart to clean it, not to mention, the fact that I had my face all up inside the GQF and I'll leave that there. I take no chances and closely monitor any cracked eggs I have tried to repair, but I usually toss 'em because of that darned emu egg.

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Gerald Barker

Oooooh yuck! I got another cracked bomb this am, again with leakage, so I will feed it to the chickens. That makes 3 hens laying so far.

 

[Garden Peas]

A friend of mine asked me to turn his emu eggs one year... Uh huh, you guessed it, one exploded after I tapped it wrong and I had to take the whole incubator apart to clean it, not to mention, the fact that I had my face all up inside the GQF and I'll leave that there. I take no chances and closely monitor any cracked eggs I have tried to repair, but I usually toss 'em because of that darned emu egg.

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Gerald Barker

Were there epithets involved?

What a description! I feel for you. The air would have been blue over my hatcher for a week after the smell was gone, and I'm pretty sure I would have tossed my cookies. I was turning eggs the other morning and suddenly realized one of the eggs had little bumps on it... It was apparently oozing through some of the pores, then drying. It went -- rapidly and very gingerly -- away. Then everything got disinfected again. Glad I caught it before it blew. Yecchhh is right!

 

[barkerg]

Were there epithets involved? 

What a description! I feel for you.  The air would have been blue over my hatcher for a week after the smell was gone, and I'm pretty sure I would have tossed my cookies.  I was turning eggs the other morning and suddenly realized one of the eggs had little bumps on it...  It was apparently oozing through some of the pores, then drying.  It went -- rapidly and very gingerly -- away.  Then everything got disinfected again.  Glad I caught it before it blew.  Yecchhh is right!

Gerald Barker

 

[DylansMom]

Were there epithets involved?

What a description! I feel for you. The air would have been blue over my hatcher for a week after the smell was gone, and I'm pretty sure I would have tossed my cookies. I was turning eggs the other morning and suddenly realized one of the eggs had little bumps on it... It was apparently oozing through some of the pores, then drying. It went -- rapidly and very gingerly -- away. Then everything got disinfected again. Glad I caught it before it blew. Yecchhh is right!

I've never had this happen with one of my eggs, but it did happen with a shipped egg one time. I assumed it had gotten so abused during transit that the membrane had torn. It too went quickly and carefully away.

 

[BackyardMarana]

My peahen has not later yet ......
Do I still have a chance of her laying?

 

[BackyardMarana]

Sorry I meant ...my peahen has not layed yet